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How The United States Stopped Being A Pirate Nation And Learned To Love International Copyright, John A. Rothchild
How The United States Stopped Being A Pirate Nation And Learned To Love International Copyright, John A. Rothchild
Pace Law Review
From the time of the first federal copyright law in 1790 until enactment of the International Copyright Act in 1891, U.S. copyright law did not apply to works by authors who were not citizens or residents of the United States. U.S. publishers took advantage of this lacuna in the law, and the demand among American readers for books by popular British authors, by reprinting the books of these authors without their authorization and without paying a negotiated royalty to them.
This Article tells the story of how proponents of extending copyright protections to foreign authors—called international copyright—finally succeeded after more …
The Forgotten Unitary Executive Power: The Textualist, Originalist, And Functionalist Opinions Clause, Zachary J. Murray
The Forgotten Unitary Executive Power: The Textualist, Originalist, And Functionalist Opinions Clause, Zachary J. Murray
Pace Law Review
This article will analyze the Opinion Clause’s text, its history and intent, and its potential functions as a power. Part II catalogues much of the prior scholarship on the Opinions Clause, which generally fits into two categories: the anti-unitary approach, which argues that a substantive reading of the Vesting Clause renders the Opinions Clause redundant, and the unitary response, which essentially accepts that redundancy. To some extent, both sides miss the mark. The unitary approach misreads the text, assigning great substantive weight to the descriptive Vesting Clause, while assigning descriptive status to the substantive Opinions Clause. The anti-unitary approach, on …
The South Won't Rise Again But It's Time To Study The Defunct Confederacy's Constitution, Ralph Michael Stein
The South Won't Rise Again But It's Time To Study The Defunct Confederacy's Constitution, Ralph Michael Stein
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The premise of this essay is not to espouse that the Southern ideological and constitutional theorists were correct. I propose, however, that an understanding of the historical basis of constitutional law, and a recognition of evolving doctrinal issues of Federalism, will enhance law school curriculum. Presentation of these topics dictates the introduction of the Confederate Constitution into the curriculum of required courses and electives. This effort, I propose, would be a prudent step, to be amply repaid in terms of higher understanding and scholarly benefit.
Eras Of The First Amendment, David S. Yassky
Eras Of The First Amendment, David S. Yassky
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Part I will begin the story with the Founders' understanding of the structural role of the First Amendment. In this understanding, the First Amendment served as a bulwark of state independence. Along with the rest of the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment had as its primary purpose maintenance of the federal system--or, more precisely, protection of the states against federal government overreaching. The Founders' plan left the individual states entirely free to regulate speech, while strictly prohibiting the federal government from displacing the states' various speech regimes.
When the Civil War dramatically reshaped the federal-state relationship, the structural purpose …
A Two-Tiered Theory Of Consolidation And Separation Of Powers, David S. Yassky
A Two-Tiered Theory Of Consolidation And Separation Of Powers, David S. Yassky
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This Note explores the jurisprudential implications of the New Deal watershed and elaborates a post-New Deal theory of allocation of governmental power. Part I begins with a discussion of the Federalist theory of separation of powers. For the Federalists, two conditions ensured an effective separation. First, governmental branches must be institutionally independent; each must be free from control by the others. Second, the branches must be functionally specialized; each must wield a distinct component of governmental power, so that the assent of all three is required for government action.
Until the New Deal, the Supreme Court incorporated this theory into …